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Monthly Archives: October 2012

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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 13, 2012

Rory Reed issues a pointless memo to AMD

Trying times demand chirpy fluff, not actual management

While AMD (mis)management was busy slipping the knife (dirk?) in to a quarter of the company, it looks like their chirpy ways had not subsided.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 12, 2012
1

AMD’s layoffs target engineering

Board incompetence dooms the company

Almost a year ago, SemiAccurate said that the root of AMD’s problems was their board, and if that didn’t change, the company was finished.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 12, 2012

What is going on with Nvidia’s GK114?

Like AMD, the answer is not much

Since we told you about AMD’s Sea Islands yesterday, what’s new on the Nvidia side?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 11, 2012
1

AMD’s Vishera pops up at etailers

Some questions answered, others not

It looks like AMD’s Vishera CPU is popping up at several retailers a bit early.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 11, 2012
3

What is the latest on AMD’s Sea Islands?

Not much new, not too exciting

What is the latest on AMD’s Sea Islands (CI) line of GPUs?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 9, 2012

How can you tell an engineering conference from a junket?

The SemiAccurate guide to technology conferences

Some conferences are about technology, others simply claim to be but have no more tech than a rural school board meeting.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2012

Calxeda gets another round of funding

$100 million so far for the company

Calxeda is announcing another round of funding, with another $55 million in their bank account.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2012

Bloomberg wrong about Intel’s woes

Opinion: Logic error or verification error?

A week ago, Bloomberg put out a story about Clover Trail CPU/SoC delaying Windows 8 tablets because of Intel’s software problems.
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Leo Yim
Oct 5, 2012

AMD to launch something “mutated” on October 9

Tablet and keyboard dock with Windows 8 sunny side up, coming right through.

So what just happened is that AMD posted a YouTube video and leaving a dead link which should be accessible from October 9th onwards, creating suspense about an upcoming product launch (or an announcement of an upcoming product launch maybe?) on October 9th.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 4, 2012

Qualcomm is the last big SoC vendor to join the HSA foundation

All aboard, or is it all onboard?

HSA Foundation LogoIt looks like the HSA foundation just got a new member, Qualcomm.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 3, 2012
2

OEMs call Intel’s Haswell pricing, “Absurd”

You have to pay for that new brand somehow

Intel thinks Haswell is going to change Ultrabooks, but there is one big problem, price.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 2, 2012
1

A year on, Ultrabooks are a worse disaster than most expected

Intel's failure was predictable, we predicted it

A year after SemiAccurate called Intel’s moronic Ultrabook spec “Shiny things for the stupid”, the world is coming around to our point of view.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 1, 2012
1

AMD’s Trinity Faces Off With Intel’s Ivy Bridge

The mainstream battle royal...

Today we’re aiming to find out if the CPU’s side of Trinity can keep pace with Intel’s Ivy Bridge.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 1, 2012

AMD lets us tell you Trinity pricing

Don't you feel better about waiting a week?

AMD is allowing us to release the final numbers on Trinity today, the price.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 1, 2012

Texas Instruments shutters consumer OMAP lines

The only course of action left after sale faltered

Last week Texas Instruments announced that they were scaling back their OMAP division for smartphones and tablets.
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